Disneyworld Scare

Recently the kids' and I were at a birthday party. I was talking with a couple of children who have had wishes granted by Make A Wish Foundation.I am always intrigued by the kids. I am a wish granter through the foundation but i will discuss that more on another note. As I am speaking with these two boys about their wishes and where they have gone Khyla made a comment that brought back the biggest and longest 20 minute scare of my life.
May 2010 the children, my sister, my mammaw, and myself went to Florida for a week. Before I left somehow i found a website that sold safety tattoos that you place on your child and put your phone number on it. I bought them and my other half picked on me for being so psychotic. I put them on my kids on our first evening in Florida. One day during our trip we went to the Animal Kingdom. Khyla, Miguel, and Mammaw were sitting at a table while Kiarra, Becky, and myself were grabbing ice cream cones. I turned to grab the two cones and turn back and Khyla was GONE. Thinking she was laying in her stroller I walked over to find the stroller empty. I asked Mammaw where she was and she said I do not know . Instant fear came over us. We are in Disney World for gods sake. We instantly start checking the bathrooms and the monkey cage as she loved that exhibit. Nope not there. We really start getting scared at this point. One of the workers saw me frantically searching for her and called security. After a couple minutes I remember the safety tat. I run to the stroller and grab my phone and turn it on. Within about 3 minutes it rings and I notice the phone number is from Florida. Khyla had been found and they were meeting me with her. Seriously OMG i was in tears. I am thinking she must have been so scared. Nope she wasn't at least so I thought.
Now back to the birthday party. I am talking with the boys and khyla says the following." mom remember when we were in Mickey Mouse land and you got ice cream and then you left me. I could not find you so I went to the Nemo movie and you took a really long time to come get me". WOW my jaw still drops just typing that statement. My heart broke realizing she thought I left her. I would highly suggest anyone who travels with kids to have stock of these safety tats. Here is the website www.safetytat.com
I have included some pics from that trip. The one of Khyla in a purple shirt was taken literally 10 minutes before she disappeared..

Happy 11th Birthday to my favorite guy!!!

Miguel my first true love turned 11 on November 27th. Such a bittersweet moemnt for me. I can still remember when we were told we were pregnant. When we first saw his lil heart beat. i remember his first little smile. This boy has me wrapped around his fingers. I will probably never know another child like my Miguel. he is the sweetest child I have EVER met. So considerate and sweet. Does not have a mean bone in his body. If you ever do secret santa you hope he chooses your name.
For his party this year he had a Harry Potter themed party. not gonna lie I was SCARED. but in the end it turned out pretty awesome. I have included pictures of him through the years and of his food...

Portable North Pole

My daughters are on the countdown to Santa! 24 days till the golden egg of childhood..
That means 24 days left of blackmailing the kids' into behaving and listening. Anyone who knows me knows how much I LOVE tricking my kids'. (I know I am evil)
Well every year i go onto the portable north pole website and create a video. I usually have Santa say they are on the nice list. Well NOT this year.I snapped a couple pictures of my 4 year old Khyla watching her Santa video. They came out a little dark but are still great!
Just a little info about this website. You get to create a "live" video of Santa talking to your child about all they have done this year. You get to include pictures of special events. Santa then goes on to talk about how he knows if you have been naughty or nice. You of course get to deisgn what gets said and what doesn't. I am including the link to Khyla's video below as well as the pictures. Enjoy!!

http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/g-_FisIJq7pojfY2pl86C5g

Sisterly Love

Growing up I was a very jealous child. I dispised my sisters' greatly, Not really sure why but I made sure when I had my second and third child that they knew they were loved and I tried my best to give them all the attention that I could.Now I watch my girls' and remember things or stories from my childhood. Some nice but MOST not so nice. Lol
My sister Becky was born 3 years and 1 day after me. She was in my eyes"the chosen child". Not really sure why i resented her so much. As adults she is my best friend so there is some good that came from it. I see so much of our relationship in that of my girls' Kiarra and Khyla. Khyla tries so hard to make her sister like her. At times if Khyla even breathes it annoys Kiarra. Then other times all you do is hear them laugh and play.
I have done many things to my sisters'. I pulled Becky's arm out of socket(pretty sure she earned that at some point), i used to cut her dolls' hair off, break the arms of the barbies, believe me the list could go on and on.Eventually at the age of 17,I moved out and Becky and I began to have a relationship. We even shared a birthday party. Yes we have shared parties before but they were FORCED.. lol
I remember going to bed at night and Becky would rub my head and sing. I would never admit it but I LOVED it and looked forward to it every night.
Watching my girls' interact with each other brings back many memories. I now know what to look out for, when to interfere, and when to just relax.
My darling Khyla was watching tv with me on the couch. Kiarra was sitting in a little plastic chair. Khyla got up and pulled the chair out from underneath Kiarra and then went back to the couch to finish watching TV. I sat half shocked and half proud. Not proud that she was mean to her sister, but proud that it really is genetics and not so much upbringing sometimes that make children function the way they do. I was proud just to know that no matter how much they fight and pick on each other, one day they will be best friends..

It's that time of year again!!!

Halloween is now past us so you know what is next. CRAZINESS..... I do not know about you but my Christmas shopping is just about done!! We have so much going on this month and next. My birthday, my sister's, Miguel's, Thanksgiving, and then Christmas . We are driving to Virginia this year for Christmas. The kids' are SUPER excited!!! So i am already stressed and tired and looking forward to the end of the year. Okay maybe not really as I miss my family terribly and we have not seen them in a year!!
So time to get the ornaments ordered for our ornament swap (more about that later)..